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Why waste $150 to $233 on tax prep?
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Check the status of your refund
The new version of IRS2Go includes an easy-to-use refund status tracker so taxpayers can follow their tax return step-by-step throughout the IRS process. Just enter your Social Security number, filing status and your expected refund amount. You can start checking on the status of your refund 24 hours after the IRS confirms receipt of an e-filed return or four weeks after you mail a paper return. Since the IRS posts refund updates on a daily basis, there’s no need to check the status more than once each day.http://www.irs.gov/uac/New-IRS2Go-Offers-Three-More-Features
NC drivers get NO increase
The North Carolina Rate Bureau has chosen not to request a rate increase for 2014 on private passenger car and motorcycle insurance policies. First in US history?
Cars with highest resale value-Best value
Unless you own stock in GM, your best choice for value and reliability seems to be made in America by foreign firms. The top values include Honda, Subaru, Toyota , again.
News you never hear about
The federal budget deficit has fallen sharply over the past few years and is on track to decline even further, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office.
NSA collects our phone calls but not the terrorists’ calls—big waste of money
Terrorists use software Tor to bounce their calls and emails off 3 or more computers around the world so that they can’t be traced, unlike TV show depictions. Tor, an acronym for “the onion router,” is software that provides the closest thing to anonymity on the Internet. Tor started as a project of the U.S. government. More than half of the Tor Project’s revenue in 2012, or $1.24 million, came from government grants, including an $876,099 award from the Department of Defense, according to financial statements available on the project’s website. “We will never be able to de-anonymize [find] all Tor users all the time. With manual analysis we can de-anonymize [find] a very small fraction of Tor users,” NSA said. “Encryption works,” Bruce Schneier, a cybersecurity expert who helped the Guardian analyze the Snowden documents, said at a talk in New York in January. “That’s the lesson of Tor. The NSA can’t break Tor, and it pisses them off.”
Why is NSA tracking our calls if they can’t ID terrorist’s calls/emails? It is our money.
Inflation-proof Retirement Income
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SCAMS Why are we still paying $700 Billion a year for WWII deployments?
We are paying for 164,253 of our active-duty armed personnel to be in 150 countries around the world. We have about 50,000 in Japan and 50,000 in Germany . Are we preparing for WWII again? There are 1,208,083[1] personnel in the United States . Our taxes pay for about HALF of the WORLD’s military expenditures every year.
Congress guarantees profits to farmers, even if they don’t grow
Congress gave themselves and corporate farmers a guaranteed profit subsidy this week while cutting food stamps to hungry Americans. Many in Congress are millionaires already but they took more from poor children. Farmers like Mike Mitchell, a potato farmer in Monte Vista. He leases 38,000 acres of land to the federal government. In a program expanded in this current bill, the government makes landowners and their counties whole to let the field go unused so it doesn't drink precious aquifer water.
Mitchell and other landowners will get about $200 an acre — most from the federal government and a little from local funds — to conserve water. "We're not just insuring a crop loss," said farmer Arnusch, who also raises alfalfa and wheat. "We are insuring ourselves against the volatility of the marketplace." $200 times 38,000 is $7.6 million.
Congress is using our tax money to prop up these donors. We could buy the land at that rate:http://www.landwatch.com/Rio-Grande-County-Colorado-Land-for-sale/pid/279065899
Congress is using our tax money to prop up these donors. We could buy the land at that rate:http://www.landwatch.com/Rio-Grande-County-Colorado-Land-for-sale/pid/279065899
Socialism for the Rich
American International Group is benefiting from an improved reputation after the insurer finished repaying a $182.3 billion U.S. bailout, according to its Chairman. But should America , home of the free and the brave capitalist, really be bailing out companies that lost at the derivatives gambling table? Is this what capitalism is all about? We help the rich get richer and the unemployed get the finger? Was your business bailed out?
“Wolf of Wall Street” still attacking the gullible prey
Yes, even with the movie to warn us, people are still answering the phone pitches of at least 15 Wall Street “chop shops.” Whichever script works at the time is used over and over to get victims to send their savings to the “brokers/advisors” who run wild. Protect yourself:http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20140130/FREE/140139995
Cover-up a crime is a crime—here and in heaven
A U.N. human rights committee denounced the Vatican on Wednesday for “systematically” adopting policies that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children over decades, and urged it to open its files on the pedophiles and the bishops who concealed their crimes. “The committee is gravely concerned that the Holy See has not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed, has not taken the necessary measures to address cases of child sexual abuse and to protect children, and has adopted policies and practices which have led to the continuation of the abuse by, and the impunity of, the perpetrators,” the report said. The UN has said that the Vatican should "immediately remove" all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers. The UN watchdog for children's rights denounced the Holy See for adopting policies which allowed priests to sexually abuse thousands of children.
Police caught Vatican officials laundering money
Police said they seized 6.5 million euros in real estate and bank accounts Tuesday, including Monsignor Nunzio Scarano’s luxurious Salerno apartment, filled with gilt-framed oil paintings, ceramic vases and other fancy antiques. A local priest was also placed under house arrest for alleged involvement in the money-laundering plot. Police said in all, 52 people were under investigation.
MorganChase gets no jail time for deception on mortgages
JPMorgan Chase will pay $614 million in cash and agree to enhance its quality control program for loans that are submitted in the future to FHA’s Direct Endorsement Lender program.
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